Brian Oldfield ( eng. Brian Oldfield , 1945–2017) - American athlete, Olympian . Specialized in shot put . Former world record holder 22.86 m (May 10, 1975). The quality of the records established by Oldfield still remains open, as the athlete came to the attention of control instances during doping investigations (he was charged with distributing various steroid drugs), [2] and the records set by him were made in the absence of elementary control from representatives of the US sports instances [3] . Oldfield himself categorically denied his use of doping and in general any involvement in the trafficking and sale of prohibited drugs [4] .
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Biography
He graduated from the University of Tennessee . Already speaking for the university had outstanding sporting achievements and in 2000 was introduced to the University Sports Hall of Fame.
He was also engaged in throwing the disc and taking into account the peculiarities of the throwers technique, he developed an original technique of pushing the nucleus - “Oldfield Spin” (Oldfield Spiral). In 1971, he scored 5750 points in the decathlon , showed on a 100-meter 10.5 s and 1.98 m in high jump, 64.10 m in javelin throw and 64.86 m in hammer throw. Showed the result of 125 kg in the bench press , when in 1983 he was invited to compete with other well-known American athletes - Ben Plaknett and Mac Wilkins , - ahead of his two rivals in a quick jerk of the barbell and losing to them in the standings (Plaknett squeezed 282, 5 kg, and Wilkins 215). [five]
Participant of the Summer Olympic Games in Munich (1972). The sixth shot put result is 20.91
He was going to participate in the Olympics-84 , to confirm his amateur status appealed to the famous lawyer Melvin Belli [6] .
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| Oldfield with a cigarette in the mouth | |
| Oldfield in the Scottish kilt at the games of the Highlanders | |
| Storyboarding techniques perform the "Oldfield Spiral" | |
He was known for his unusual appearance and antics on sports arenas. Unusually for athletes at the time, he had a hairstyle in his own style, which he called "Oldfield Mop", sometimes wearing a beard. Sometimes, Oldfield smoked cigarettes between his attempts at competitions to show that he could beat anyone, even with bad habits. He wore bright outfits, combined shirts with ties and swimming trunks. These tricks served him not only in order to raise popularity, but often outraged his rivals. At the 1972 Olympics, his opponent pronounced the words: “I will retire on the day I lose to someone like Brian Oldfield.”
In an interview for Sports Illustrated , Oldfield said: "When God created man, he wanted him to be like me." (This quotation was published in an article on sports on September 5, 1975.) A photo of Oldfield appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, and materials about him were published in Play magazine 's 1975 magazine .
Oldfield acted as a sparring partner of Mohammed Ali , participated in the World's Strongest Man competition in 1978, taking the seventh place out of ten participants. He also participated in the " Highland Games " in the 1970s. His best career push was a world record until 2013.
Oldfield also starred in the 1989 film Savage Instinct, later renamed The Call Me Macho Woman! "Performing the role of Mongo, a crazy drug lord. In the film, Oldfield wears a special studded headdress that his character uses to kill people. The film fell through at the box office.
In the last years of his life he was seriously ill, he moved in a wheelchair.
Notes
- ↑ Brian Oldfield, MTSU's Bo Jackson, dies
- К See, for example, the hearings of the Sports Committee of Canada based on the testimony of Jamaican-Canadian athlete Angela Taylor-Isaenko : Commission of Inquiry to Increase Athletic Performance , 1990, p. 245.
- ↑ McNab, Tom. The Complete Book of Track and Field. - Exeter Books, 1980. - P. 145. - ISBN 0-89673-049-2 .
- ↑ Track Star Admits to Steroids . // New York Times . - March 14, 1989. - P. B11.
- ↑ The Pharmaceutical Athlete: An Olympian Dilemma . // Scholastic Coach . - November 1983. - No. 53 - P. 75 - ISSN 1077-5625.
- Олимп "Olympian" American style // Soviet Sport No. 136 (11155) of June 14, 1984